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Memo -Criteria for Capital Project Partnership Page 2 February 7, 2001 projects. Factors that we believe should be used to determine who best can design, engineer and construct a specific project include: • When a project is built inside a city, including its urban fringe, the project should be designed and constructed to the standards of that city, including but not limited to sidewalks, street lights, traffic calming, water quality elements, and trees. • The level of public involvement appropriate to the project. • Coordination with non-road systems, such as stormwater, wastewater and telecommunications facilities, that are logical to construct in conjunction with road improvements. If extensive support from city staff is required to address these factors, the cities feel it is appropriate for the project cost to include reimbursement for city staff time or for the cities to engineer and construct certain projects to avoid duplicative project expenses. 4.) Timeline -Generally, projects should be deliverable within six years. This seems like. a reasonable requirement that is tied to the funding period associated with the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000. 5.) Project justification -Projects should be related to safety or capacity. The cities feel that safety/capacity is one of several criteria that should be considered in project justification. The following additional project criteria should be among those considered, although not any priority order. • Protects the public's investment in existing road infrastructure through capital preservation projects. • Improves key links in the regional road network. • Improves connectivity and efficiently moves traffic from rural areas to the urban centers, and vice versa. • Redirects traffic to appropriate streets, including state highway and county roads, in accordance with state and area transportation plans and policies. • Supports economic development, redevelopment, or job creation and retention. We have considerable additional information, particularly on the additional project justification criteria, and we would welcome an opportunity to sit down with you and explain more thoroughly the mutual benefits of our proposals. We recognize the difficulty facing county staff and the Roads Advisory Committee in making recommendations to the Board of Commissioners, and we share with you the desire to formulate partnerships that best meet the needs of the citizens of Lane County.